Ally Carter Quotes
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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The wise are above books.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
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Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,'Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away.'
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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,And disapproves that care, though wise in show,That with superfluous burden loads the day,And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
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It's hard for me to take your despair very seriously, Doctor. You obviously enjoy it so much.
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
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Every child instinctively heads toward dirt and filth unless you pull it back.
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
